Pollio, a pastoral, xiii, 386 Polybius, the historian, account of, xviii, 26 skill of in political affairs, ib. 31 Marcus Brutus employed in writing an epitome of, ib. 30 character of and of his writings, ib. 17 Shere’s translation of, viii, 203 character of, xviii, 19 Polydore, character of as a painter, xvii, 492 Pope-burning, description of vi, 222 account of, x, 370 right of over kings, ib. 19 infallibility not alone in the, x, 164, 187 treats Castlemaine with contempt, ib. 305 Nicholas V. character of, xviii, 24 panegyric on, ib. 25 Alexander, poetical epistle of, xvii, 282 lines of on the fate of Elkanah Settle, i, 274 Pordage, Samuel, account of, ix, 372 Portsmouth, Duchess of, epigram on picture of, xv, 280 Postscript to the Æneis, ib. 187 History of the League, xvii, 150 Powell’s, George, retort on Dryden, xi, 65 Powlet, John, vide Winchester, Marquis of Prayer, pilot’s, to Neptune, vii, 17 Preface to the Sullen Lovers, extract from, i, 260 translation of Plutarch’s Lives, appearance of, ib. 289 Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, extract from, ib. 422 the Wild Gallant, a comedy, ii, 17 Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, ib. 383 the Tempest, iii, 99 an Evening’s Love, ib. 218 Tyrannic Love, ib. 349 All for Love, v, 306 the State of Innocence, ib. 105 Œdipus, vi, 124 Troilus and Cressida, ib. 238 Albion and Albanus, vii, 216 Don Sebastian, ib. 291 Cleomenes, viii, 196 Religio Laici, x, 11 the Hind and the Panther, ib. 109 prefixed to the Fables, xi, 205 to translation of Ovid’s Epistles, xii, 3 on Translation, prefixed to Dryden’s Second Miscellany, ib. 263 the translation of the Pastorals of Virgil, xiii, 345 Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, xv, 401 remarks on, ib. 397 every Husband his own Cuckold, xv, 414 the Art of Painting, by Mons. de Piles, xvii, 333 a dialogue concerning women, xviii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 the New Converts Exposed, extract from, x, 103 Reasons for Mr Bayes changing his Religion, extract from, ib. 103 Pregnancy of the Queen of James II. ridiculed, ib. 303 Prejudices of Sir Matthew Hall, xiii, 67 Preliminary remarks on the poetry of England before the Civil Wars, i, 4 Premature decrepitude of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454 Presbyterianism, account of the rise of x, 148 Presbyterians, tradition of no weight with, ib. 169 Prevalence of false taste in the age of King James I. i, 9 Prince Rupert’s gallant actions, ix, 167, 174 Arthur, of Blackmore, extract from, i, 422 Princess of Cleves, prologue to, x, 400 epilogue to, ib. 402 Prior and Montague, parody of on the Hind and the Panther, i, 330 Prodigies of hawkers, x, 348 Profession of James II. on his accession, x, 262 Projected works of Dryden, xiii, 31